As I was viewing the video in totem I wanted to pause on particular parts of the animation on Nicu’s desktop to try to get a better feel for how it was behaving. I really needed to step slowly through, frame-by-frame, to find the exact frame I was looking for. I looked in the totem menus to see if such a control existed, but I did not find it, so I mentioned in IRC, ‘ i wish there was a way to get totem to go frame-by-frame.’

Turns out there is! It’s a hidden gem – keep hitting the ‘.’ key with a video open in totem to progress through the video frame-by-frame. To move frame-by-frame backwards, in future versions of totem you’ll be able to hit the ‘,’ key. When I was talking to totem hacker extraordinaire Bastien about how to use the feature and how useful it was, he added some suggestions for improving the feature that will make it even easier for me to review usability videos in detail:

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About Máirín Duffy

Máirín is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape. You can read more from Máirín on her blog at blog.linuxgrrl.com.